{"id":652,"date":"2009-02-06T01:09:14","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T21:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=652"},"modified":"2009-03-17T22:07:42","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T05:07:42","slug":"fiberglass-car-body-kits-the-rockefeller-rocked-carchives-one-of-the-first-fiberglass-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Sports Car &#8211; Fiberglass Car Body Kits &#8211; The Rockefeller Rocked &#8211; Carchives &#8211; One Of The First Fiberglass Flyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-653\" title=\"fiberglass_kit_carsrace_track\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/fiberglass_kit_carsrace_track-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"fiberglass_kit_carsrace_track\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"body_link sz11\">The early-&#8217;50s, which were the formative years for the fiberglass industry, saw kit car manufacturers in the forefront of development. One of the pioneering efforts was the Rockefeller Yankee, a unique &#8216;glass job that was sold in kit, turnkey, and turnkey-minus form. Not many were sold, but the technology developed for the project proved invaluable when the first Corvette went into production one year later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body_link sz11\">The Rockefeller was the brainchild of two New York entrepreneurs, auto repair shop owner Jim Rockefeller and sports car salesman Warren Shiber&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitcarmag.com\/tipstricks\/0805kc_fiberglass_car_body_kits\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The early-&#8217;50s, which were the formative years for the fiberglass industry, saw kit car manufacturers in the forefront of development. One of the pioneering efforts was the Rockefeller Yankee, a unique &#8216;glass job that was sold in kit, turnkey, and turnkey-minus form. Not many were sold, but the technology developed for the project proved invaluable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-sports-car","category-vintage-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}